I am having an issue where an image that I have included in one of the columns of my mega menu is not being contained within the width of the column but is instead expanded to full resolution (but this is only happening in the IE browser). Obviously this is a CSS issue with IE but not sure how to target this menu item in order to keep the image from overrunning the whole page. http://www.hotelsptac.com

Also, my client doesn’t want the shopping cart function of woocommerce (I am only using it for the product gallery aspect), and I would like to know how to eliminate the shopping cart icon in the upper right corner of the Abundance theme, as well as the add to cart function that appears when hovering over a product thumbnail?

For your first problem. overflow:hidden; may be needed someplace, though I took a look in IE9/win7 and I don’t see anything like what you describe http://i.imgur.com/wvMyx1M.jpg

shopping cart

Please add the following css block to the bottom of the /css/custom.css file; OR to Quick CSS located in the admin area of Abundance > Theme Options > Styling … the text area at the bottom of that page:

#top .cart_dropdown {
display: none;
}

the removal of the overlays over product item thumbnails will require you to find lines 350-358 in the /woocommerce-config/config.php file within the theme which look like